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The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action …

Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district

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Thomas Gray

A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …

An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

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William Hutchinson

In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake Distri…

A Guide to the Lakes

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Thomas West

In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…

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Ernst Dieffenbach

“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…

The Thing from the Lake

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Eleanor M. Ingram

To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assista…

The English Lakes

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William T. Palmer

An exhaustive and illustrative book explaining the locations as well as descriptions of the lakes of England. Almost like reading a journey,…

Literature and Form

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Catherine Brown

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Pond And Stream

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Arthur Ransome

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…

The Rulers of the Lakes

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Joseph A. Altsheler

"The Rulers of the Lakes" is a complete story, but it is also the third volume of the French and Indian War Series, following &quo…

Deep Lake Mystery

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Carolyn Wells

Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …

The Lake

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sag…

All Roads Lead to Blue Lake

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Marc Vale

Something’s gone wrong with your GPS system and you think you've made a wrong turn somewhere. You look at a sign that reads: Welcome to Blue…

The Trolls of Lake Maebiewahnapoopie

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Jeff White

You may think you know about small towns. You may think you know about high school principals. You may think you know about high society poo…

The Lady of the Lake

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Edmund John Eyre

At the request of Mr. Siddons, Manager and Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the following Performance was composed. I am very sens…

A Winter of Content

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Laura Lee Davidson

A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

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Alexander Von Humboldt

In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 04. April 1897

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: A Summer Voyage to the Arcti…

The Cinder Pond

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Carroll Watson Rankin

Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The facto…

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